Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Today our challenge at Sweet Stamps blog is to create a Spotlight project/card. The spotlight challenge is where you only color in a part of your stamped image to highlight just that one section. This is an awesome challenge, we want to see what you come up with for this theme. Can't wait to see what you all can come up with, but be sure to use a Sweet Stamps stamp....

Anyone can enter, but if you use a Sweet Stamps rubber stamp you get two entries into the challenge for a chance to win a $20 shopping spree. Visit the design team blog and you will see what everyone on the Design team has done.

Here is my creation:

I used the "Cutwork Rose 7011" for my image today. I stamped the Cutwork Rose out twice onto my cardstock and colored only one part of it on one of the stamped images using my copics. I used an oval die to cut out my colored part and a scalloped die for the mat behind it. I layered these on top of my other stamped image. I added a mat behind the non colored image and a border on the right side with some of the Candi dots added to the border. For the finishing touch, I added a bow made out of a rainbow ribbon.

Be sure to visit Sweet Stamps blog and see what the rest of the team has created for you. And please join in on the fun!

Every Monday Totally Stampalicious issues a new challenge. The challenge for this week is a Critter challenge, you must use some sort of critter on your project/card. Let's see what you can come up with using these colors. I have used "Moo-velous" for my stamp/image today :)

Here is my card for today's challenge:

Hop on over to the Totally Stampalicious Blog HERE and check out the rest of the super talented Design Teams creations for your inspiration! I can't wait to see what wonderful creations come out of this awesome challenge! Happy crafting!!

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Today is Wendy's Birthday. She is the owner of Repeat Impressions. SO all of us on her awesome Design Team and a few of the past Rock Stars, have gotten together to do a special Blog Hop in honor of Wendy's Birthday Today.

Happy Birthday Wendy!!!!

Here is the card I created just for Wendy:

I decided to make a gate fold card. I used 3 different stamps from Repeat Impressions, "1603-K, Bouquet Bear", " Happy Birthday" and " 1819-I, Wishing you happiness . . . ". This is a picture of the card laying flat, the only way I could get the flap to stay closed was to use a bit of re-positional tape.
This is what the card looks like standing alone:

And finally one that is open to show the inside:

Hope you have an AWESOME DAY WENDY!!!!!

Here is a list of all of the Rock Stars and previous Rock Stars that are participating in today's hop to Wish Wendy a Happy Birthday:

Friday, March 23, 2012

Hi Everyone!! I am here on this Friday with another sneak peek, this time using the Beatrix Potter collection that will soon be available at Crafter's Companion!

I used two stamps for my card today, Benjamin and .

I decided to try my hand at making a Tri Shutter Card. Here are the directions that I followed to make my card.

You need a 5 1/2 " x 12" piece of card stock for your card base.
Then you will use your Ultimate Tool and the Boxer score board and score at 2", 4", 8" and 10", you will have to move your paper in order to score at 10" as the score lines only go up to 8". Picture below shows the score lines.

Then you will lay your card base with short end at the top of the score board and measure down 1 1/2" and start to cut a slit using your craft knife all the way down to the 10" score line. Repeat this step for the other side of the card base. Your card base should look like the picture above.

Then you will fold your card as pictured below:

This is your card base, now you will decorate your card base. You will need to trace the T shape of your card onto your DP and cut out, you will need 2 of these.
The other pieces are: 4 pieces of DP at 1 3/8 x 1 7/8
2 pieces of DP at 1 3/8 x 3 7/8
1 piece of DP at 2 3/8 x 3 7/8

Adhere these pieces to the right sections on your card base

Decorate your card as you please....

Hope you will give the Tri Shutter Card a try. It was pretty easy to do and I plan on making more cards like this.

See you all next Friday with another sneak peek of another new release..

As always we want you to play along in our Release Blog Hop so we're going to give away some PRIZES!!!

1st Prize - All FOUR New Stamp Sets

2nd Prize - $15 Gift Certificate

3rd Prize - $5 Gift Certificate

All you gotta do is comment your way through the hop and YOU could be a lucky winner!!!

You should have arrived here from the very talented Kendra's blog, if not you should go back to the beginning of the hop at Totally Stampalicious, so you don't miss out on any of the awesome creations the Design Team has done.

For the hop today, I have used the new "Margaret Umbrella" stamp set:

Here is a 2nd card that I made using another stamp set from this awesome

new release, I used " Stella Caution":

To continue on the hop, your next stop is the very talented Lori's blog to see what awesome Confection she has for us..... And don't forget to leave comments along the way for your chance to win some awesome prizes !!!!

Don't forget that Totally Stampalicious also has an awesome promotion going on right now! See all the details at the store!!!

I used the 2706-K, Loon
for my card today. It is pretty simple today,
I stamped the Loon with brown ink onto some
white card stock and decided to leave it as is.
I added a strip punched with a border punch and a
few pearls.

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Today our challenge at Sweet Stamps blog is to create a Easter project/card. This is an awesome challenge, we want to see what you come up with for this theme. Can't wait to see what you all can come up with, but be sure to use a Sweet Stamps stamp....

Anyone can enter, but if you use a Sweet Stamps rubber stamp you get two entries into the challenge for a chance to win a $20 shopping spree. Visit the design team blog and you will see what everyone on the Design team has done.

Monday, March 19, 2012

Every Monday Totally Stampalicious issues a new challenge. The challenge for this week is a Flower challenge, you must use the colors Purple, Turquoise and Green on your project/card. Let's see what you can come up with using these colors. I have used "Gus Golf" for my stamp/image today :)

Here is my card for today's challenge:

Hop on over to the Totally Stampalicious Blog HERE and check out the rest of the super talented Design Teams creations for your inspiration! I can't wait to see what wonderful creations come out of this awesome challenge! Happy crafting!!

Friday, March 16, 2012

Hi Everyone!! I am here on this Friday with another sneak peek, this time using the Sketchy collection from Sheena Douglas that will soon be available at Crafter's Companion! I used the ship stamp for my card today.

I made an easel card. There are so may directions on how to make an easel card, but I will briefly explain how I did mine.

* First you want to create a card base, I usually use a piece of cardstock cut to 6x12 and score at 6" and fold. But for my card today, I used one of my larger dies to make a shaped card.
* Next cut out another piece of cardstock using the same die or shape as the card base.
* Then on the card base,you will take the top section and score it in half. If using a 6" card, this would be at the 3" score line. The Ultimate Tool is great for scoring your cards.
* Then you will attach the single cut out/shape to the bottom section on the scored side, on the base of your card.
* This is your easel card. You then decorate as you wish. You will want to put something with a bit of height on the main card so that the top of your card will stand up (you can see in my picture that I added some black pearls on top of a double layer border.

A closer look at my easel card:

See you all next Friday with another sneak peek of another new release..

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

This week the challenge over at Cheery Lynn is a Flourish challenge. As I really like these dies and would really like to be on the DT, I decided to give this challenge a try. I used a few dies that I just got this past week. Medium Rose, miniature rose and fanciful flourish.

Here's how the "Designer's Choice Challenge" will work!
All of the fabulous design team members for Repeat Impressions

will be assigned a Wednesday, and we get to set the

"theme" for the challenge! The Theme for this

week's DCC is hosted by and she is

challenging the Rock Stars to make a Sympathy card!!

Here is my creation for this challenge:

I used the sentiment "8612-E, Sympathy" from the Quartet Complements Series stamps.
I decided to CASE a card that I saw recently on one of my favorite sites. The card is posted on the site HERE. When I saw this card that Becca made, and I saw what our challenge was, I thought it would work perfectly as a sympathy card. Thanks for the inspiration Becca.....

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Today our challenge at Sweet Stamps blog is to create a Spring project/card. This is an awesome challenge, we want to see what you come up with for this theme. Can't wait to see what you all can come up with, but be sure to use a Sweet Stamps stamp....

Anyone can enter, but if you use a Sweet Stamps rubber stamp you get two entries into the challenge for a chance to win a $20 shopping spree. Visit the design team blog and you will see what everyone on the Design team has done.

Here is my creation:

I used the"Strawberry Bear" and the "Strawberry Corner" on my card today. My stamps are stamped onto Cryogen card stock and colored in with copics. I used the Cheery Lynn Squares and Scalloped Squares to cut out my image and for the mats behind the image. I added some pearls to finish off my card. Pretty simple today.....

Here is the inside of my card:

I followed the same theme from the front of my card. Hope you like it!!!!!

Be sure to visit Sweet Stamps blog and see what the rest of the team has created for you. And please join in on the fun!

Monday, March 12, 2012

Make it Crafty is having a DT call. I LOVE the images/stamps that are available at Make it Crafty. They are so great to use my copics on. They have lots of detail and I really enjoy coloring them up. I would really like to be able to put all my knowledge that I have with the copics to use.

1. Country you reside in (DT is open to everyone worldwide) I live in York, PA USA

2. What style of creations do you like to make? I prefer to make cards, I do a little bit of lots of bling to plain and simple

3. What do you enjoy most about crafting? It is so very relaxing to me. I really enjoy using my copic markers and coloring in all the awesome images that I have.

4. What are your favourite products at Make it Crafty? I would have to say all of your awesome digital images. The scenes are really great as well as the new images you just added.

5. Why would you like to be on the Make it Crafty team? I feel I could make your images come alive using my copics. You can see above at my 3 images that I colored. I taught myself how to use the copics and all the many techniques with using them. Your images are so great to use the copics with and I would really like to find a DT that I can put my knowledge of the copics to use. thanks for this great opportunity.....

One of my favorite projects to date has to be the Anthony and Burt get well set that I made. Once I learned how to make these hinged boxes, I haven't stopped. They can be used for so many things/ideas. The link to my card and project is HERE. Another of my favorite card that I have done so far this year is the first one on this post. This image reminds me so much of myself when I get good news. I like to jump up and down and yell......

Every Monday Totally Stampalicious issues a new challenge. The challenge for this week is a Flower challenge, you must use flowers of some sort on your project/card. Let's see what you can come up with using these colors. I have used "Stamping Scarlette" for my stamp/image today :)

Here is my card for today's challenge:

Hop on over to the Totally Stampalicious Blog HERE and check out the rest of the super talented Design Teams creations for your inspiration! I can't wait to see what wonderful creations come out of this awesome challenge! Happy crafting!!

Friday, March 9, 2012

Hi Everyone. I am here on this Friday with yet another card for the Cheery Lynn challenges. I used two of my FAVORITE companies, Cheery Lynn and Sweet Stamps.

I used 2 of Cheery Lynn Doily dies, the Kiwi Oval Frame and the Doily Stacker Circles 1, 2,3. I also used one of my favorite stamps from Sweet Stamps called the Cutwork Roses. My roses are colored with my copics and I fussy cut out my colored image and popped it up on top of the doilies. Hope you like it.......

Hi Everyone!! I am here on this Friday with another sneak peek, this time using the Paintbox Poppets' collection that will soon be available at Crafter's Companion! I used the Ballerina stamp for my card today.

I stamped my image onto cryogen card stock and colored her in using my alcohol ink markers. I have a habit of creating scenes with my images. The little ballerina looked like she needed to be on a hardwood floor. I cut out my colored image using a die and then I added some lace and some pearls.

A closer look at my colored image:

I will share a bit on how I made the hardwood floor.

First you take a ruler. You want to lightly draw a horizontal line where you want the floor to be. You will then take and draw a vertical line. This will create a corner. I also took and drew a vertical line to create the wall corner.

Next, you will take your ruler and again very lightly, draw horizontal lines to make the boards of the hardwood floors. You want to follow the first horizontal line in the way it goes. The boards closer to you should be a little bit bigger that the ones further away.

Next you start to color your floor boards. You will color the sections closest to where the floor meets the wall darker and go outwards with a lighter color.

Next, I used my grey markers and very lightly added shadows to create the corner of the wall. I also used the greys on the area where the floor meets the walls. This will give you some dimension to make it look like a real wall. Of course, you could also make the wall to look like mirrors if you wanted to.

See you all next Friday with another sneak peek of another new release..

Thursday, March 8, 2012

I have been chosen to be on the Cornish Heritage Farms Design Team. YEAH!!!!!!! This is such another great opportunity and I am looking so forward to working with these awesome stamps. So keep checking back for my first post for Cornish Heritage Farms Design Team....... Check out their blog to see who else was chosen to be on the team HERE.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Thought I would share a picture that Kerri took of Scooter. He is my now 7 month old black and white Shih Tzu. He is such a good little boy and makes us all laugh, we really need it here with what has happened in the past 7 months.

Today our challenge at Sweet Stamps blog is to create a Monochromatic project/card. This is an awesome challenge, we want to see what you come up with for this theme. Can't wait to see what you all can come up with, but be sure to use a Sweet Stamps stamp....

Anyone can enter, but if you use a Sweet Stamps rubber stamp you get two entries into the challenge for a chance to win a $20 shopping spree. Visit the design team blog and you will see what everyone on the Design team has done.

Here is my creation:

I used the "Short Teapot Set S012" and the "Pouring Out Wishes 988" sentiment on my card today. I stamped the Tea Pot first, then the cup and then the pouring hearts.I cut out my colored image using Cheery Lynn Scallop Coved Rectangles. I cut out a mat for behind it. After looking at my matted image, I decided that I wanted to have some sort of lacy mat behind my cut out image, but nothing I had really worked. So I used the Cherry Lynn Lace Light Deco Border and cut the border apart and layered each piece behind my cut out image to create a double frame around my image. I dug out my Medium Rose Cheery Lynn die and made 4 flowers and put a brad in the center of each. I finished off with a lace bow, the lace was white and I colored it using my copics to match the color of the card and my colored image.

And here is a second card that I made:

This card uses the "Graduation Bear & Congrats DUO 227" stamp set. My image is colored with copics. I made this card for my daughters graduation in June. Her school colors are gold and black and on graduation day, the girls wear gold gowns and the boys wear black. Kerri, my daughter, got accepted to Wilson College in Chambersburg, PA for their vet program. Congrats Kerri!!!!

Be sure to visit Sweet Stamps blog and see what the rest of the team has created for you. And please join in on the fun!

Monday, March 5, 2012

Every Monday Totally Stampalicious issues a new challenge. The challenge for this week is "Spring". Let's see what you can come up with using the SPRING theme. I have used "Ava Flowers" for my stamp/image today :)

Here is my card for today's challenge:

Hop on over to the Totally Stampalicious Blog HERE and check out the rest of the super talented Design Teams creations for your inspiration! I can't wait to see what wonderful creations come out of this awesome challenge! Happy crafting!!

Friday, March 2, 2012

Hi Everyone!! I am here on this Friday with another sneak peek using the Stamp It collection that will soon be available at Crafter's Companion! I used the stamp Renaissance Squares for my project today.

I created a spotlight card, except I didn't spotlight just one little thing, I spotlighted 4 things.

I was sitting here looking at these stamps, I picked this stamp out and thought it would look good with a few of the squares highlighted. So I picked out 4 of them and colored them using the new Spectrum Noir alcohol ink markers.

I then cut out each colored square and popped them up using pop dots onto the top of another stamped image. I double matted my finished image and then added a few pearls and voila, card is done. Pretty simple today, but I think I really like how it turned out.

See you all next Friday with another sneak peek of another new release..

Hi Everyone!!! Today is the 1st of March and that means it is time for a NEW challenge on the Crafter's Companion Challenge Blog. This month our challenge to you is to make a project using a Crafter's Companion Stamp and the theme "Going Green". We want you to create a project with the color green in mind, it can be a card, layout, altered item, etc. Just make sure you use a Crafter's Companion stamp in order to have a chance to win an awesome PRIZE.

The prize for this challenge is 3 packages of the new Spectrum Noir Alcohol Ink 6 Marker Sets (your choice of color groupings) and a Spectrum Noir 36 Pen Zipper Bag to store your new markers. These are some really awesome markers and they are very affordable. Give them a try and you will like them as much as I do.

Here is my creation for the March Challenge of Going Green:

I used the Swalk Daydream Believer stamp set. I didn't want to use a dark or a really bright green color, so I went for a very soft green color. I also used my blender pen to make the lightest color very light. I used the tip to tip method. I also used my markers to color my white ribbon the same green color that I used on my image and to color the white pearls in the 4 corners. I used a cloud template and created some clouds. My sentiment is stamped onto card stock and I cut it to look like a banner. I created it to look a bit wavy when I attached it to my card.

Here's a picture of my card flat so you can see the wavy banner:

I added a bunch of pearls to finish off my card.

So get out those Crafter's Companion stamps and start creating for this challenge and you could win the awesome prize mentioned above.